Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Administration (ECA)

Elevate your career as a Nutanix administrator with the comprehensive Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Administration course, designed to enhance your skills in managing hyperconverged infrastructure and mastering Prism Central's capabilities.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Understand core Nutanix concepts and configurations.

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Create and manage virtual machines effectively.

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Configure and maintain Nutanix cluster security and networking.

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Monitor and optimize cluster performance and storage.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 4 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Nutanix administrators
  • Datacenter engineers
  • Technical managers
  • IT professionals seeking NCP-MCI certification

Description

If you already have experience with administering a Nutanix environment, this course will extend, deepen, and broaden your knowledge as you grow in your career as a Nutanix administrator. Designed with Prism Central as the focal point, this course illustrates the breadth and depth of Nutanix’s centralized management capabilities, and allows you to explore the wide variety of features that are available in this one, single web console. ECA is divided into four topic areas: Understanding core Nutanix concepts, such as hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and the various Nutanix cloud solution packages. Also, the basic configuration of a cluster and the components that are needed to create and manage VMs – namely, networks and images. Creating and managing VMs, how to protect VMs and their data, how to apply storage optimization features at the VM level, and how to migrate your workloads to a Nutanix environment. Learn about alerts, events, log collection, reporting, and how to use various features in Prism Central to identify, analyze, and remediate performance issues. Learn how to set up a cluster for maintenance activities – such as starting and stopping nodes and clusters – and how to manage and upgrade licenses and installed software with just a few clicks.

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Course Outline

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Getting Started with a Nutanix Cluster

  1. Understand three-tier and hyperconverged infrastructure

  2. Understand Nutanix Cloud Solution Packages

  3. Understand nodes, blocks, clusters, and cluster services

  4. Get Started with Prism Central and Prism Element

  5. Understand when to use Prism Central and when to use Prism Element

Securing a Nutanix Cluster

  1. Understand Nutanix’s approach to security

  2. Use Prism Central to configure authentication, users, and RBAC

  3. Understand Policies in Flow Network Security

  4. Use Prism Element to configure Data-at-Rest Encryption

Configuring Cluster Networking

  1. Understand AHV networking terminology

  2. Use Prism Central to monitor cluster networks

  3. Use Prism Element to explore the Network Visualizer

  4. Create and update subnets and virtual switches

  5. Understand subnet extension and network segmentation

Managing Images

  1. Understand the image service

  2. Use Prism Central to monitor, upload, import, and manage images

Creating Virtual Machines

  1. Use Prism Central to create VMs

  2. Use Prism Central’s self-service capabilities to create VM templates

  3. Install and enable Nutanix Guest Tools

Managing Virtual Machines

  1. Update, clone, customize, export, and apply placement rules to VMs

  2. Create and apply storage policies to VMs

  3. Create playbooks to automate common VM administrative tasks

Protecting VMs and Their Data

  1. Understand data protection terms and concepts

  2. Use Prism Element to configure local and remote backup and DR

  3. Use Prism Central to create protection policies with Leap

Configuring and Managing Cluster Storage

  1. Understand AOS Distributed Storage

  2. Create and update storage containers

  3. Use various capacity optimization features

Migrating Workloads with Nutanix Move

  1. Understand, install, and upgrade Nutanix Move

  2. Use Move to migrate VMs

Monitoring Cluster Performance

  1. Understand performance monitoring features in Prism Central

  2. Create sessions, charts, and reports

  3. Create custom dashboards in Prism Central

Monitoring Cluster Health

  1. Understand health monitoring features in Prism Central and Prism Element

  2. Get summarized and detailed health information from Prism

  3. Use Nutanix Cluster Check

Investigating and Remediating Performance Issues

  1. Understand alerts and events and the associated dashboards in Prism Central

  2. Identify problematic or inefficient VMs

  3. Potential methods of remediating problematic VMs

Performing Cluster Maintenance

  1. Performing health checks

  2. Using maintenance mode

  3. Starting and stopping nodes and clusters

Upgrading Licenses, Software, and Firmware

  1. Understanding LCM and the LCM workflow

  2. Performing an upgrade using LCM

  3. Licensing a cluster and managing licenses

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